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From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
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Subject: Re: E.E.Cummings died (3/9/1962)
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 Ar an ceathrú lá de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Ross Clark: 

 > [...] "The seeds of Cummings' unconventional style appear well established
 > even in his earliest work. At age six, he wrote to his father:
 > 
 >     FATHER DEAR. BE, YOUR FATHER-GOOD AND GOOD,
 >     HE IS GOOD NOW, IT IS NOT GOOD TO SEE IT RAIN,
 >     FATHER DEAR IS, IT, DEAR, NO FATHER DEAR,
 >     LOVE, YOU DEAR,
 >     ESTLIN.
 > 
 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings

  ‘M. L. Rosenthal wrote that: “The chief effect of Cummings' jugglery with
  syntax, grammar, and diction was to blow open otherwise trite and bathetic
  motifs through a dynamic rediscovery of the energies sealed up in
  conventional usage ... He succeeded masterfully in splitting the atom of the
  cute commonplace.[1]”’

If he were a patient of mine I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there were
ischaemic damage to Broca’s area on an MRI brain.

-- 
‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
(C. Moore)